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anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
Anthropologist
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Zora N. Hurston
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The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.
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We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.
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want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
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I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.
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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
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Silence is all the genius a fool has.
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Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
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Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.
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If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?
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It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.
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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.
Zora Neale Hurston
The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
Zora Neale Hurston
